What are the top 3 primary things that you are attached to in your life? - Asked by @Rohily, on Formspring
1. That God and Devil are in the details; there's good and bad in everything.
"لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ" (Q.)
2. That none of this will last. If it is good, it will pass. And if it's bad, it will pass too.
"وَعَسَى أَنْ تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَنْ تُحِبُّوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَكُمْ" (Q.)
3. Everyone is doing his/her best. Everyone wants to be good. Nobody wants to be called a loser or a meanie. It's just the methods that vary. Not the goals or intentions.
"لا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا " (Q.)
"إنما الأعمال بالنيات ، وإنما لكل امرى ما نوى" (HS)
Its just life. Get over it.
ReplyDeleteInstinctively, I went, "Bear? Beaver? Bacchus? Who are you?"
ReplyDeleteThen I figured that maybe you're having a rough day, filled with complainers. So I'm sorry if my post has worsened your day.
And yea, I kinda know it's just life, and it's fine. And, mine at least, it isn't over until it really, really is over. There is just too much to learn and do. And if it's going to take a hundred more posts like the above to make me remember and assimilate that understanding in my daily behavior, then so be it.
It being life, gives me no excuse to take it for granted.
So thank you for the reminder. And please take care of yourself.
Bear
ReplyDeleteI'll believe you.
ReplyDeleteThe writer in you would have seen the obvious.
ReplyDeleteLove the 3 things posted here--very rationale and objective--good way to live!
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